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Heraldry of Kislev as depicted in Total War: Warhammer III.

The following is a complete chronology of the major events in the history of the Tzardom of Kislev using the Kislevite Gospodarin Calendar, with dates in the more commonly used Imperial Calendar presented in parentheses.[1a]

As with all things historical, it is impossible to be certain as to the reliability of some of these dates, as the Kislevite practice of placing their rulers at whatever battle they feel most fitting of their skills and temperament seems designed to give the history scholar headaches. Similarly, dates of particularly ancient events are equally vague, and it is hoped that readers will forgive any lapses caused by the vagaries of current records.[1a]

Chronology of Kislev

  • ca.–5000 (-3476 IC) - Elven colonisation of the Old World finally reaches the site of modern-day Erengrad. This outpost marks the furthest the Elves penetrate to the east and north.[1a]
  • ca. –3000 (-1476 IC) - Greenskin attacks force the Dwarfs to abandon their settlements along the Rivers Lynsk and Urskoy.[1a]
  • ca. –1828 (-304 IC) - The Thurini tribe migrates from the east of the Worlds Edge Mountains along the River Lynsk to the south-eastern shore of the Sea of Claws.[1a]
  • ca. –1600 (-76 IC) - The lands north of the Urskoy are peopled by the Roppsmenn and Ungols. Except for border raids and the odd skirmish, peace exists between them and the Teutogens who border their territory.[1a][2a]
  • –1524 (1 IC) - The Empire of Man is founded by the Unberogen warrior-king Sigmar. He scatters the ancient Norsii people from the shores of the Sea of Claws, and they flee northwards. The Ungols drive them further north into what is now Norsca. Sigmar aids the Ungols fighting Orcs of the Worlds Edge Mountains, and peace exists between the Empire and Ungols after they fight together at the Battle of Black Fire Pass.[1a][2a]
  • ca. –45 (1479 IC) - Over several years, increasing expansion by the tribes of the Chaos Wastes forces the Gospodar tribes to move westwards.[1a][2a]
  • ca. –30 (1494 IC) - Khan-Queen Miska leads the Gospodar tribe over the High Pass, driving back the Ungol people.[1a][2a]
  • –27 (1497 IC) - The settlement of Praag is overrun by the Gospodars and the Ungols are forced westwards.[2a]
  • –25 (1499 IC) - The army of Ungol Warlord Hetis Chaq defeats a Ropsmenn host led by King Weiran on the cliffs overlooking the Sea of Claws. The Ropsmenn are scattered and the Ungols take their lands.[2a]
  • Unknown Date (1500 IC) - Boris Ursa leads the Kislevite hordes over the World's Edge mountains and declares the Northern lands as the Kingdom of the Kislevites.[5a]
  • Unknown Date (1512 IC) - Boris Ursa leaves the newly fledged kingdom in the hands of his daughter Miska. Miska gathers her warriors and starts to extend the realm. She defeats two large Empire armies.[5a]
  • Unknown Date (1515 IC) - Battle of the Scimitars. Miska clashes with the combined armies of the Empire, Dwarfs and Bretonnians. The battle ends without a clear winner and Miska returns to the North where she fortifies the borders and declares that Kislevites will defend their land to the last citizen. The Dwarfs, Bretonnians and men of the Empire are far too weak to re-conquer the North.[5a]
  • 1 (1524 IC) - Under the rule of the Khan-Queen Shoika, work begins on the building of the great Gospodar capital, the city of Kislev. She takes the title Tzarina to indicate her new reign over the lands north of the Urskoy.[1a][2a]
  • 3 (1527 IC) - Norvard, greatest settlement of the Ungol is captured by the Gospodars and renamed Erengrad. This event effectively completes the Gospodar conquest of the lands north of the Urskoy.[1a][2a]
  • Unknown Date (ca. 1500 to 1600 IC) - The Kislevite population increases rapidly. [5a]
  • Unknown Date (1605 IC) - Supported by an allied contingent of Empire troops, Alexandr Njevski throws back a huge army of Greenskins in a pitched battle.[5a]
  • Unknown Date (2100 IC) - Igor the Terrible conquers Dorogo and renames it Kislev. Igor orders the construction of the Kreml, the fortress that has been the home of the Tzars ever since.[5a]
  • Unknown Date (2134 IC) - Igor the Terrible conquers the Farside and declares it part of the Kislevite Empire.[5a]
  • Unknown Date (2247 IC) - The colonization of the Farside begins. Kislevites wage many battles with Hobgoblins and other Greenskins, until a strong contingent of the Kislevite army vanquishes the most powerful Hobgoblin Chieftain on the battlefield, Hariz Bloodknife.[5a]
  • 778 (2302 IC) - Great War against Chaos, or Great Patiotic War, as the Kislevites call it. All begins with small skirmishes. Cossacks of the North fight against continually increasing numbers of Chaos Warbands. Tzar Alexis Romanoff starts mustering the Kislevites for the unavoidable war. A mighty Chaos army lead by Asavar Kul defeats the forces of Kislev in two bloody battles. Praag is beseiged and falls after a bitter struggle.[1a][2a][5a] Magnus the Pious appears in Nuln and unites the Empire. Tzar Alexis appeals to Magnus for aid. Bolgasgrad and other settlements along the Lynsk are abandoned. Chaos fleets range across the Sea of Claws and attack merchant ships. The siege of Praag begins in spring. Magnus the Pious arrives in Middenheim and splits his forces. The mounted troops depart to attempt to relieve Praag, while Magnus leads the rest of his army through Talabheim to Kislev. Praag falls in the winter, and the siege of Kislev begins.[1a][2a]
  • 779 (2303 IC) - In Kurkov, the Kislevite cavalry defeats an immense army of Chaos Knights in a colossal battle.[5a] The combined armies of the Empire, Dwarfs and Kislev defeat the greatest Chaos horde in history at The Battle of the Gates of Kislev. Magnus the Pious vows eternal friendship with Tzar Alexis and Magnus is named Hero of the People.[1a][2a][5a]
  • 780 (2304 IC) - The Time of Re-building begins.[5a]
  • Unknown Date (2367 IC) - Captain Rossokovski of the Gryphon Legion leads his knights in the campaign waged against Bretonnians alongside the forces of the Empire. He recieves great military honours for his bravery and for saving the life of Emperor Paulus.[5a]
  • Unknown Date (ca. 2400 IC) - The rise of the Romanoff dynasty of Tzars.[5a]
  • 785–941 (2309-2465 IC) - The Reign of Tzarina Kattarin the Bloody ends when Tsarevich Pavel strikes the blow that ends her life, imprisoning her corpse in a block of ice where she remains to this day.[1a]
  • Unknown Date (2475 IC) - Continual skirmishes with the forces of Chaos. The last Romanoff Tzar is murdered by a fanatical Priest of Miska. Radii Bokha rises to power supported by both the military and aristocracy.[5a]
  • 968 (2492 IC) - Tzar Vladimir Bokha dies fighting Goblins east of Kislev. His son, Boris, inherits a nation that has done little to recover from the Great War against Chaos.[1a][2a]
  • 969 (2493 IC) - Tzar Boris Bokha defeats a large army of Beastmen outside Praag, earning the title Radii Bokha (Bokha the Red).[1a][2a]
  • 973 (2497 IC) - Radii Bokha returns from the wilds with the war-bear Urskin and becomes the first high priest of Ursun in over four hundred years; he takes the title Boris Ursus.[1a][2a]
  • 989 (2513 IC) - In The Battle of the Dobryion Fields, Cossack Chief Stepan Rasin is the sole survivor of both armies that originally numbered over 2000 men. Prince Ivan Radinov rescues Vasilisa the Wise from the dark sorceror Koshei the Immortal.[5a]
  • 990 (2514 IC) - Stepan Rasin climbs the Cliff of Death which stands in the middle of the River Urskoy. He is the first and only man to perform this feat.[5a]
  • 993 (2517 IC) - Tzar Boris dies in battle whilst leading an army north of the Lynsk into Troll Country. At an unnamed river crossing, the Tzar falls fighting Hetzar Feydaj. Tzar Boris's daughter, Katarin, becomes the Tzarina of Kislev, beginning the reign of the Ice Queen.[1a][2a]
  • 1000 (2524 IC) - During the End Times, in late Autumn Kislev is completely overwhelmed by a Chaotic invasion. Men, beasts of the dark forest, and hideous monsters surged through Kislev in numbers never before seen. They swept south. Cursed Praag was engulfed by howling daemons and horrors undreamed as Erengrad fell to midnight reavers in wolfships who burned the western seaport to the ground. The city of Kislev, impregnable fastness of the Ice Queen herself, is taken by storm in a single night of terrifying bloodshed. Its towering walls are turned to rubble, thick with screaming forests of impaled men and women whose ruined bodies are attended by red-legged carrion-feasters.[4]

Storm of Chaos

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This article or this section of the article contains information regarding the Storm of Chaos campaign and its aftermath, which is now considered a non-canon, alternate timeline.


  • 998 (2522 IC) - The power of the Dark Gods grows in the north as the northern tribes are united by Archaon. Chaos armies led by Surtha Lenk and Aelfric Cyenwulf ravage much of northern Kislev. Lenk is defeated by Boyarin Kurkosk at Mazhorod, while Albertalli leads the charge against the Kurgan line. Later, alongside the armies of Stirland, Talabecland, and the Ice Queen, Albertalli fights at Urszebya against the hordes of Aelfric Cyenwulf, both him and his men slain to a man to stall the enemy for Tzarina Katarin to cast her spell and achieve victory againsy Cyenwulf.[3b] Archaon leads his victorious armies south but is defeated outside the walls of Middenheim by the defenders of the Empire.[1a]

Canon Conflict

Citadel Journal issue number 14 report that Tzar Bokha died under mysterious circumstances in 2512 IC,[5a] instead of 2517 IC.[1a]

Prince Ivan Radinov is mentioned in Citadel Journal 14, 15, and 16, and other publications published in 1996. However, every other source regarding the modern Kislevite royal family has mentioned Tzarina Katarin as the only child of Tzar Boris Bokha, with the commander of the Gryphon Legion being Tordimir Lubovasyn.

Andy Hall, the writer of Total War: Warhammer III and a former employee of Games Workshop, confirmed in an interview that in Total War: Warhammer III alternate timeline Katarin Bokha is an only child.[3]

Sources

  • 1: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 2nd Edition: Realm of the Ice Queen (RPG)
    • 1a: pg. 18
  • 2: Warhammer Chronicles 2004 (6th Edition)
    • 2a: pg. 16
  • 3: Ursun's Teeth (Novel) by Graham McNeill
    • 3a: Ch. 10
    • 3b: Ch. 11
  • 4: With Ice and Sword (Short Story) by Graham McNeill
  • 5: Citadel Journal 14
    • 5a: pg. 12, "Kislev: The Claws of the Great Bear"
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